Yesterday, while training our new Social Media person, I discovered something on the Diabetes Hands Foundation Facebook page (I never cease to be amazed at how many things they change without announcing them…) that comes in handy to fight spam on your Facebook page.
If you are an Admin of a Facebook page, you will see at the top of your page (below the Updates box) a Spam option you can click on.
When you click on it, you are presented with the equivalent on Facebook to your Spam or Junk folder on your email. Pretty handy-dandy! I don’t know exactly how they are designating posts as spam, but I assume they must be throwing in there anything that follows spammy behaviors, such as posts that are copied and pasted in multiple places with little or no changes.
If you concur with their judgement about a post being spammy (as in the case below):
you can remove the post and ban the person from your page as you used to be able to do before.
If you feel the post has been designated as spam by error, you can also correct that by choosing the “Unmark as Spam” option from the dropdown in the corner, as shown here:
So, what do you make of this resource Facebook gives you to keep spammers at bay on your Facebook pages?
